7. All unregistered Dogs, wheresoever found, and all Dogs, whether registered or unregistered, found molesting sheep upon any sheep run, may be destroyed.

8. In all cases where damages for injury done by a Dog are sought to be recovered from the Owner, it shall not be necessary for the plaintiff to prove that the Owner knew of the Dog’s propensity to commit the injury complained of; but the defendant may bring evidence to show that he had no reason to believe that his Dog was likely to commit such injury, and this evidence may go in mitigation of damages.

9. All Registration Fees and penalties levied under this Ordinance are hereby reserved to Her Majesty, her heirs, and successors, for the public use of the said Province, and shall be subject to the appropriation of the Provincial Council thereof, and shall be payable at the office of the Clerk to the Bench of Magistrates, and shall be recoverable in a summary way at the suit of any person whom the Superintendent of the said Province may authorise by warrant under his hand to recover the same.

Passed the Provincial Council this twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five years.

ROBT. CHAPMAN,
Clerk of Council.

Assented to on behalf of the Governor, at Dunedin, the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

NOTICE.

CLAIMS TO VOTE FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all persons residing within the Electoral Districts hereinafter described, whose names are not included in the present Electoral Roll, and qualified to vote for Members of the House of Representatives under the provisions of an Act passed in the 15th and 16th years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 72, entitled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” are hereby requested to prepare Claims in writing in the form hereto annexed, particularly stating the qualification in respect of which such claim is made, and lodge the same at this court between the 1st and 30th days of April next, after which latter date no claim can be received.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Resident Magistrate.

FORM OF CLAIM.

To A. C. Strode, Esq.,
Resident Magistrate.

I hereby give you notice that I claim to have my Name enrolled as a Voter for the Dunedin (Town or Country as the case may be) District for Members of the House of Representatives, in accordance with the provisions of the Act 15 and 16 Victoria, cap. 72, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand.”

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QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS.

Pursuant to the provisions of the above-recited Act, every man of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, having a Freehold Estate in possession, situate within the district for which the vote is to be given, of the clear value of Fifty Pounds above all charges and incumbrances, and of or to which he has been seised or entitled either at law or in equity for at least six calendar months next before the last Registration of Electors; or having a Leasehold Estate in possession, situate within such district, of the clear annual value of Ten Pounds, held upon a lease which, at the date of such Registration, shall not have less than three years to run; or having a Leasehold Estate so situate, and of such value as aforesaid, of which he has been in possession for three years or upwards next before such Registration; or being a Householder within such district, occupying a tenement within the limits of the Town of the clear annual value of Ten Pounds, or without the limits of the Town of the clear annual value of Five Pounds, having resided therein six calendar months next before such Registration as aforesaid, shall, if duly registered, be entitled to vote at the Election of a Superintendent of a Province, or of a Member or Members of the Provincial Council thereof, or of a Member or Members of the House of Representatives: Provided that he is not an alien, and that he has not at any time heretofore been attainted or convicted of any treason, felony, or any infamous offence within any part of Her Majesty’s dominions, unless he shall have received a free pardon, or shall have undergone the sentence or punishment to which he shall have been adjudged for such offence.

DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICTS.

1. The Town of Dunedin District comprises the site of the Town of Dunedin, as delineated on the New Zealand Company’s plan of the said Town.

2. The Dunedin Country District comprises all that portion of the Province of Otago not comprised in the site of the Town of Dunedin.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 31st March, 1855.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT has been pleased to direct it to be notified that the under-mentioned gentlemen have this day been duly re-elected members of “The Board of Commissioners for the Management of the Public Lands in Dunedin,” under Ordinance Session I., No. 5.

Messrs. Robert Chapman, Dunedin
Arthur John Burns, do.
Peter Proudfoot, do.

By His Honor’s command,
JOHN LOGAN,
Clerk to Superintendent.